On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 7, 2009, at 9:57 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote:
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>> On Monday, Brendan, Allen, Mark, Jonas had a second ad hoc meeting to
>> discuss Web IDL.
>
> Are these meetings getting announced in advance anywhere?
I tend to find out about them about 15 minutes after they start :)
>> Â Below are some rambling notes.
>>
>>
>> I didnâ€™t agree with the part of Allenâ€™s analysis of overloading that
>> claimed that it currently requires expensive overload resolution
>> whenever a function is called (the implementation should know ahead of
>> time exactly what set of ES types correspond to which overloaded
>> operation).
>
> Yes, the current approach should not be any more expensive than an approach
> with union types. Either way you do some type checks and dispatch to the
> proper piece of code.
>
>> There was agreement though about the â€œimpedence mismatchâ€